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Sixteen portraits of classical poets and thinkers. Drawing, c. 1789.

Eight likenesses of Socrates. Two drawings, c. 1789.

The wounded Alcibiades. Oil painting formerly attributed to Jean Charles Nicaise Perrin.

Socrates. Line engraving by P. Pontius, 1638, after Sir P. P. Rubens.

The symposium described in the Symposion of Plato: the drunken Alcibiades enters on the left. Etching by P. Testa, 1648.

Xanthippe rides on the back of Socrates with a whip in her hand. Mezzotint by J. Smith after HG.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau greeted by Socrates, Montaigne and Plutarch on his arrival at the Elysian Fields. Engraving by C.F. Macret after J.M. Moreau, 1782.

Philosophers: twenty portraits of ancient thinkers. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Stoicism: above, the suicide of Seneca; middle, Zeno and Chrysippus; below, the suicides of Socrates and Cato. Engraving by W. Hole, ca. 1614.

Socrates. Line engraving.

Before and after Socrates / [Francis Macdonald Cornford].

Socrates. Line engraving by D. Cunego, 1783, after A. R. Mengs after Raphael.

Socrates : ironist and moral philosopher / Gregory Vlastos.

Sokratous scholastikou kai Hermeiou Sozomenou [sic] ekklesiastike historia. = Socratis scholastici et Hermiæ Sozomeni historia ecclesiastica. Henricus Valesius Græcum textum ... emendavit, Latine vertit, & adnotationibus illustravit. ... Hanc editionem .

De armorum literarumque comparatione commentariolus ... Ejusdem de inimicitiarum lucro ... Ejusdem apologia Socratis et Aristotelis.

Operum secunda pars, qua continentur Floridorum libri IIII. De dogmate Platonis liber I. De philosophia, sive de deo Socratis liber I. Apologiae, sive orationes duae pro se ipso. De mundo, sive cosmographiae liber I. De medicaminibus herbarum liber I. Ab innumeris, quibus scatebant, mendis nunc demum purgati / [Apuleius].

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Socrates

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Images featuring Socrates

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Sokratous scholastikou kai Hermeiou Sozomenou [sic] ekklesiastike historia. = Socratis scholastici et Hermiæ Sozomeni historia ecclesiastica. Henricus Valesius Græcum textum ... emendavit, Latine vertit, & adnotationibus illustravit. ... Hanc editionem .

De armorum literarumque comparatione commentariolus ... Ejusdem de inimicitiarum lucro ... Ejusdem apologia Socratis et Aristotelis.

Socrates

Images from the collections

Images featuring Socrates

Works from the collections

Sokratous scholastikou kai Hermeiou Sozomenou [sic] ekklesiastike historia. = Socratis scholastici et Hermiæ Sozomeni historia ecclesiastica. Henricus Valesius Græcum textum ... emendavit, Latine vertit, & adnotationibus illustravit. ... Hanc editionem .

De armorum literarumque comparatione commentariolus ... Ejusdem de inimicitiarum lucro ... Ejusdem apologia Socratis et Aristotelis.

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